Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-29

woy better, with wider room and velocities
heyond computation; the dullest OF us into
companionship with the very best spirits IN
their very best mood, in the very parlor OF
the universe, the four walls Furnished and
nanelled and pictured and glorifed with all
the splendors that the infinite God in al!
The ages has been able to invent. Victory!
This view, Of course, makes it OF bu.
little Importance whether We are cremated
or sepuliured. If the latter is ust to dust
fine former is ashes to ashes. If any pre-
fer the incineration let them have it with
ont caricature. The world may become so
crowded that cremation may be universally
adopted by law as we'll as by general con-
sent. Many of the mightiest and best
shirts lave gone through this process.
Thousands and tens of thousands of Gods
children have been cremated-P. r. Bliss
and wife, the evangelistic singers, cremated
by accident at Ashtabula bridge; John
Rodgers, cremated by persecution; Latimer
and Ridley, cremated ut Oxford; Pothinus
and Blandina, a slave, and Alexander. o
nhysician, and their comrades, cremated at
the order of Marcus Aurelius-at least
100. 200 of Christ's disciples cremated, and
there can be no doubt about the resurrec-
fion of their bodies. If the world lasts as
much longer as it has already been built,
there perhaps may be no room for The
large acreage set apart for the resting
places, but that time has not come. Plenty
of room yet, and the race need not pass
that bridge of fire until it comes to 1t. The
most of us prefer the old way. But whether
out of natural disintegration or cremation
We shall get that luminous, buoyant, glad
some, transcendent, magnificent. ine1pll-
cable structure called the resurrection body;
you will have il, I will have it. l say to
YOU to-day, rs Paul said to Agrippa: "Why
shouldit be thought n thing incredible with
you that God should raise the dead?". The
far up cloud, higher than the hawk flies,
higher than the eagle flies, what is it made
of? Drops of water from the Hudson,
other drops from the East River, other drops
from a stagnant pool out on Newark flats
up Wonder there, embodied in a cloud and
the sun kindles it. If God can make such
a lustroius cloud out of water drops, many
of them soiled and impure and fetched
from miles away, can He not transport the
fragments of a human body from the earth,
and out Of them build o radiant body2
Cannot God, who owns all the material out
of which bones and muscle and flesh are
made, set them up again if they have
fallen? If q manufacturer of telescopes
drop a telescope on the floor and it breaks,
can he not mend it again 30 you can see
through ii? And if God drops the human
eye into the dust, the eye which he origi-
nally fashioned, can He not restore it? Ay,
if the manufacturer of the telescope by a
change of the glass and o change of the
focus can make a better glass than what
was originally constructed. and actually
improve 1t, do you not think the fashioner
of the human eye may improve its sight
and multiply the natural eye by the thou
sandfold additional forces of the resurrec.
ton eve?
"Why should it be thought with you an
incredible thing that God should raise the
dead?" Things all around us suggest it.
Out of what grew all these flowers? Out
of the mold and the earth. Resurrected!
Resurrected! The radiant butterfly, where
did it come from? The loathsome cater.
pillar. That albatross that smites the
tempest with its wing, where did it come
France, in q Celtic tomb under a bloch
was found flower seed that had beer
buried 1000 years. The explorer took the
flower seed and planted it, and it came up,
it bloomed in bluebell and heliotrope. Two
thousand years ago buried, yet resur.
rected. A traveller says he found in q
mummy pit in Egypt garden peas that hat
been buried there 5000 years ago. HI
brought them out and on June 4, 1874, he
planted them, and in thirty days the,
sprang up. Buried 5000 years, yet resur.
rected. "Why should it be thought a thin,
incredible with you that God should raise
the dead?"
Where did all this silk come from-tht
silk that adorns your person and you
homes? In the hollow of a staff n Greel
missionary brought from China to Europ,
the progenitors of those worms that nov
supply the silk markets of many nations
The pageantry of hammered host and tn.
luxurious articles of commercial emporium
blazing out from the silk worms. AND
who shall be surprised if out of this in.
significant earthly body, this insignifcan
earthly life, our bodies unfold into some.
thing worthy of the coming eternities
Put silver into diluted inter and it dis.
solves. Is the silver gone forever? No
Put in some pieces of copper and the silve:
%reappears. If one force dissolves anothe
force organizes.
"Why should it be thought a thing in,
credible with you that God should raise tn,
dead?" The insects flew and the worm
crawled last autumn feebler and feebler
and then stopped. They have taken n,
food, they want non They lay dorman
and insensible. but soon the south vino
will blow the resurrection trumpet, and tn,
air and the earth will be full of them. D,
you not think that God can do as much TO
our bodies as he does for the wasps ant
the spiders and the snails? This morninf
at 4::30 o'clock there was q resurrection
Out of the night, the day. In a few week,
there will be q resurrection in all GU
gardens. Why not some day resurrectio,
amid all the graves?
Ever and anon there are instances O
men and women entranced.
A trance is death followed by resurrec
ton after a few days; total suspension O
mental power and voluntary action. Rev
William Tennent, a great evangelist of tn,
last generation, of whom DIR. Archibul,
Alexander, q man far from being senti
mental, wrote in most eulogistic terms
Rev. William Tennent seemed to die. Hi,
spirit departed. People came in day afte
day and said:
"He is dead, he is dead" But the sou
that fed returned, and William Tennen
lived to write out the experiences of wha
he has seen while his soul was gone. 1
NAV be found some time that what 10 collie,